Nostalgic automotive pictures including our family's cars

This is a discussion on Nostalgic automotive pictures including our family's cars within Vintage Cars & Classics in India, part of the BHP India category; Seems it was way before Naval dockyard came up in the background:
Raab Rakha.
Courtesy: BING, but cannot remember from ...

I believe that this dockyard extension came up in 1965 or 1969, I remember seeing the trucks plying and the bolders being dropped to create the bund.

This is a wedding picture, a blend of cultures, white saree, white veil and the old Austin or whatever.

Cheers harit

True Karl as you put it, it is indeed an Hindustan 10 (may be a Morris 10 but that was rare in India). The window on the rear door is one of a kind here and cannot be missed.The third window does not slant towards the base but remains horizontal- also unique for the Hindustan 10.

Seems it was way before Naval dockyard came up in the background:......

These three postcards on the Gateway are from different periods of time. This monument has been photographed many times.
First picture is from 1926, whatever one can see of the cars is very ancient.
The second is from the middle of 1930's, the cars are more modern.

Postcard is unused.
The third is from 1959, printed by the Times of India Press Bombay. Car much more modern, maybe a Vauxhall? Also posting the message, Bombay had prohibition at that time

This is an amazing picture, and I saw the significance only later. I received a number of pictures from a person who raced scooters around 1960, he was quite successful. Here is some function connected to that sport, being held at the turf club. The cars in the parking lot caught my eye. Extreme left is a DKW Junior/F12 of around 1960. Such a car was in Bombay and my understanding is that such a car was imported by Telco and dismantled, there were plans of production in India. Maybe the same very car?
The next car towards the right is a Lancia Flaminia, perhaps the Dubash car. And then this Cadillac (Kasli, are you looking close?) and next to it the Fiat.
In the background appears to be the racing track.

A lovely monument with a few busses on the street, probably Ashok Leylands. Any idea about this monument?

Cheers harit

It is the Madras High Court Building if I am not mistaken. The Leyland buses were much more popular in South India.

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Originally Posted by harit

This is an amazing picture, and I saw the significance only later. I received a number of pictures from a person who raced scooters around 1960, he was quite successful. Here is some function connected to that sport, being held at the turf club. The cars in the parking lot caught my eye. Extreme left is a DKW Junior/F12 of around 1960. Such a car was in Bombay and my understanding is that such a car was imported by Telco and dismantled, there were plans of production in India. Maybe the same very car?
The next car towards the right is a Lancia Flaminia, perhaps the Dubash car. And then this Cadillac (Kasli, are you looking close?) and next to it the Fiat.
In the background appears to be the racing track.

Cheers harit

(Sorry back to back, but topic differs and I have to go)

The Juhu airport strip was used for racing. Also, could it be the Mahalaxmi Race Course? Film actor Motilal was a frequent visitor to the Race Course. He owned a few Cadillacs during his hey days.

Some more pictures:
Mumbadevi 1880's
A Ford (??) truck with a tanker body carrying aviation fuel.
Tiger hunting in the early days- four wickets are down.The car is exquisite but the killed tigers tell a sad story of how these were massacred.
Marine Drive image- we have seen this one earlier, but the resolution here appears to be very good. Almost each car is unique in design and different from the other. So wide was the choice. The Fiat-Ambassador years would follow in the 1960's and 1970's.The best assortment (motley mix) of cars in India in the 1940's, 50's and even 60's,were seen in the Flora Fountain (Hutatma Chowk) parking lot and the Marine Drive.
(pictures from: oldphotosbombayblogspot)

It is the Madras High Court Building if I am not mistaken. The Leyland buses were much more popular in South India.

You indeed got it right!
Comparing with another pic. of the same building:

And, here's a real treasure trove I found in an album posted by someone on facebook- our own Hyderabad during the last days of the 7th Nizam's rule (circa late '40s) and apparently a bit from the 1950s! Not many cars to be seen in the photos of then, the roads seem practically empty!

The first 8 photos are circa September 1948, during "Operation Polo", a.k.a "Police Action" (although it was executed by the Army!), the move to annex Hyderabad into the Indian Union, following the Nizam's violent opposition to the same since Independence in 1947.
A poor Chevy truck pushed aside, maybe in an ambush.
The guy with sunglasses in the open jeep is said to be General El-Edroos, the Comm. in Chief of the then Hyderabad state Army. He's also seen in the pic. with the Buick 8; standing opposite General J N Chaudhri of the Indian Army, following Nizam's surrender to the Indian Govt.
The USA Press Jeep has a rather interesting trailer, which seems to be fashioned out of a 1940s Yank pick-up truck??!
The next photo showing the "Purdah gate" (the curtain at the entrance seen is still in place albeit very shabby!) of the King Kothi Palace- anyone identify the Black car partly seen- Austin? Hindustan 10?
Next photo is of Tank Bund/Hussain Sagar lake- the bus seems to be an Albion (many of them in Hyd. those days) 'wonder how and why anyone would park their cycle there though!
What about the bus in the next pic.?
The army truck in the next photo with the pot-carrying village women seems to be a Dodge?
The next photo seems to be at Public Gardens with the Nizam standing on the right. The cars both seem to be '47 Chevy Fleetmasters?
And the car in the last photo? (taken at Abids, en route to Mauzam Jah market...the building behind the car still exists, now an office building)

You indeed got it right!
Comparing with another pic. of the same building:

And, here's a real treasure trove I found in an album posted by someone on facebook- our own Hyderabad during the last days of the 7th Nizam's rule (circa late '40s) and apparently a bit from the 1950s! Not many cars to be seen in the photos of then, the roads seem practically empty!

The first 8 photos are circa September 1948, during "Operation Polo", a.k.a "Police Action" (although it was executed by the Army!), the move to annex Hyderabad into the Indian Union, following the Nizam's violent opposition to the same since Independence in 1947.
A poor Chevy truck pushed aside, maybe in an ambush.
The guy with sunglasses in the open jeep is said to be General El-Edroos, the Comm. in Chief of the then Hyderabad state Army. He's also seen in the pic. with the Buick 8; standing opposite General J N Chaudhri of the Indian Army, following Nizam's surrender to the Indian Govt.
The USA Press Jeep has a rather interesting trailer, which seems to be fashioned out of a 1940s Yank pick-up truck??!
The next photo showing the "Purdah gate" (the curtain at the entrance seen is still in place albeit very shabby!) of the King Kothi Palace- anyone identify the Black car partly seen- Austin? Hindustan 10?

Nice pictures Shyam. The GOC in C in the Willys jeep is a Major General (two stars on the star plate). Now a days Area Commanders and sometimes Sub Area Commanders are Maj Generals, while the GOC in C is a Lt General.
The car King Kothi Palace car is a Hillman Minx Phase I- the curves are distinguishable!